Gallipoli Diary.

HAMILTON, Ian.

Item Number: 92815

New York: George H. Doran Company, 1920.

First American edition of General Sir Ian Hamilton’s diary of the Gallipoli Campaign. Octavo, original cloth, frontispiece with tissue guard, illustrated with maps. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper, “For my friend J. B. Maclean who has been so kind to me in Canada and elsewhere – From the author – Ian Hamilton Lou Casleon Valescuri 21.2.21.” In very good condition.

The Gallipoli Campaign, also known as the Dardanelles Campaign was a campaign of the First World War that took place on the Gallipoli peninsula in the Ottoman Empire between February of 1915 and January of 1916. The campaign was the only major Ottoman victory of the war. In Turkey, it is regarded as a defining moment in the nation's history, a final surge in the defense of the motherland as the Ottoman Empire crumbled.